"Some Washington-area residents find themselves dreaming of sailing away on a sunny day or just sitting by the swimming pool or gazing out at the water &#8212; anything but facing the pressures of the real world here along the Potomac.
Oyster Bay LLC is offering Oyster Bay at Solomons Island, a condominium development set on a private wooded cove with a marina in Maryland's Calvert County. Each of the 96 condominium residences includes a deep-water boat slip and access to the recreational amenities of the development.
Sailing from Oyster Bay's marina allows access to open water within minutes."

"December 31, 2004 Nicholas Cage can act. He did it in "Adaptation" and "Leaving Las Vegas." But not all his roles have required such skills. Take much of the work he's done with producer Jerry Bruckheimer such as "Con Air," "The Rock" and "Gone in 60 Seconds."
Being an action hero does take skill, but not on an Academy Award level. While Cage's quirky roles in "Raising Arizona," "Peggy Sue Got Married," "Moonstruck" and "Honeymoon in Vegas" may have demonstrated that he can play arty, off-beat characters, he's also chosen some rather dumbed-down movies.
"National Treasure" is one of them."

"After sailing around the Bahamas for a week on a 50-foot sloop called Zephyrus, we headed back to Fort Lauderdale. The forecast for the return trip called for rough conditions: rain, plus six- to eight-foot swells with 10 to 20 knots blowing from the east-coming from behind us, in other words, so that the waves would be pushing our boat toward Florida like a surfboard.
The crew were seven students from Ohio State's Fisher College of Business: Mike, Eric, Rob, Ashley, Kelley, Kennia, and me. We were a close-knit group, having worked on several teams together over five quarters at Fisher."

"I went to eBay and bought the telephonic equivalent of my 1996 Honda: a Qualcomm CDMA device called the LG VX4400. It's an unimpressive but solid piece of equipment with one piece of PDA functionality that I wanted to incorporate into my routine -- a simple calendar.
It sounded straightforward. You buy the USB data cable, you buy the sync software, problem solved."

"She said she was amazed that "a girl brought up in a humble council house could be made Dame Kelly Holmes".
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Rower Matthew Pinsent, who led Britain's coxless four to the narrowest of victories and thus became one of only five athletes to win gold at four successive Olympic Games, gets a knighthood. Pinsent's fellow rowers in the coxless four at Athens, James Cracknell (OBE), Stephen Williams (MBE) and Ed Coode (MBE) are also honoured.
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There are awards for the other British gold medallists - including a damehood for Tanni Grey-Thompson, regarded as Britain's greatest-ever Paralympic athlete, who secured two more golds at Athens."

"Honours for Olympic heroes
Britain's triumphant Olympic gold-medallists - headed by Kelly Holmes, Matthew Pinsent and Tanni Grey-Thompson - are celebrating their inclusion in the Queen's New Year Honours List.
The modest Holmes, who won the 800m and 1,500m at Athens to become the first Briton for 84 years to achieve an Olympic middle-distance double, is made a dame.
She said she was amazed that "a girl brought up in a humble council house could be made Dame Kelly Holmes"."

"By GILLIAN FLACCUS
LOS ANGELES - Husband-and-wife filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau escaped being pulled into a real-life version of their shark thriller "Open Water" while vacationing in Thailand.
Kentis and Lau were among hundreds of foreign tourists on the resort island of Phuket when the tsunami that has killed more than 117,000 people struck Sunday. They recounted their story to The Associated Press on Thursday by telephone from a Singapore hotel.
The family was awakened by the initial magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and Kentis was returning to his hotel after running morning errands when he saw the huge wave headed toward him."

"After an engrossing game of nip and tuck with Skandia at the start, both yachts suffered sail problems which put them on the back-foot behind Skandia in the race down the coast.
Ingvall last night confirmed one of Nicorette's giant spinnakers had ripped and his yacht had lost valuable time hoisting a replacement with Konica reported to have suffered the same fate.
"That's nothing," said Andrew Short, skipper of round the world racer Andrew Short Marine. "We blew two spinnakers in just 20 minutes and lost heaps of ground. We've spent the rest of the night trying to catch up."

"LOS ANGELES &#8212; Husband-and-wife filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau escaped being pulled into a real-life version of their shark thriller "Open Water" while vacationing in Thailand.
Kentis and Lau were among hundreds of foreign tourists on the resort island of Phuket when the tsunami that has killed more than 117,000 people struck Sunday. They recounted their story to The Associated Press on Thursday by telephone from a Singapore hotel.
The family was awakened by the initial magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and Kentis was returning to his hotel after running morning errands when he saw the huge wave headed toward him."